I was leading a seminar today in St. Lucia for about 80 people. We were talking about organizational culture, but I was showing them that culture is culture…the only difference is the perspective and scope of the conversation. So the culture of an organization, the culture of a country or the culture of a society can be viewed as the same phenomenon—simply different levels of what people say about ‘the way it is around here’. In other words, my view is that culture is always a ‘story’ about the way it is and about what is and is not possible. It encompasses who we are and our relationship with the world, and becomes the structure of self-limiting beliefs that organize our institutions, our individual actions and our experience of life itself.
